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Introduction
The QAJF conference aims to develop an open interdisciplinary discussion on addressing legal and ethical issues through formal and quantitative models and their computable implementations. Quantification promotes not only comprehensibility and computer based applications but also communication between cultures, and disciplines. Its roots can be found in different cultural traditions.
In particular, the present edition will focus on Proportionality and Justice, and aims at investigating the extent to which formal and quantitative models can be brought to bear on issues pertaining to balancing interests and values of different individuals, social groups and institutions as well as to balancing different sources of information, in different legal, political or social contexts.

General themes
The QAJF conference addresses the use of formal/quantitive methods in connection with any of the the following topics:

Ethics, moral theories and theories of human rights (e.g., assessment as of harms & benefits to other persons; quantitative models of justice and fairness)

Submission Details
The conference will include invited contributions addressing the different aspect of proportionality and justice from different perspectives.

The program committee invites further contributions from other participants in the conference — contributions consisting of original, previously unpublished research papers pertaining to any of these topics. The authors may directly submit their full research paper to the conference, or submit an extended abstract. In case an extended abstract is submitted, the authors will submit a full paper after acceptance of the abstract.

Authors should submit their papers or extended abstracts electronically using the submission system at

Each contribution will be carefully peer-reviewed by a panel of PC members for originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition and relevance for the conference.
For each accepted contribution, at least one author must register for the conference and make a presentation.

The extended abstract should also be in English, and should be 2-3 pages long.

The paper should be in English, and should be no longer than 15 pages when formatted according the LNCS specifications (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The first page should contain the full name and contact information for at least one of the authors, and it should contain an abstract of no more than ten lines.